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Depression
Important: Depression is a serious illness. If you are severely depressed or feeling suicidal please contact your doctor, as well as coming to see me.
Depression is characterised by long periods of sadness, feeling down, dejected and hopeless. Of course, these can be normal reactions to certain situations (especially loss), but in depression there is either no real reason for these feelings, or an upsetting event did take place but the reaction to it is out of proportion and lasting too long.
Energy and motivation become markedly reduced with an inability to gain pleasure from things previously enjoyed. The sufferer will typically withdraw from activity and people, or else struggle through the day by force of will. Life feels meaningless and ideas of suicide may present.
Feelings of guilt and low self esteem usually accompany depression. Some sufferers become agitated and anxious, and may suffer panic attacks, phobias and obsessions that go away when the depression is treated. Others may become almost completely unresponsive and show signs of slowed thinking.
Severe depression is accompanied by physical signs, including insomnia (especially early waking), sleeping too much, reduced appetite, reduced libido and slowed digestion.
Solution-focused Psychotherapy and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy often help to lift depression. It is likely that I can help you if you are feeling depressed, but it is important to realise that you may also need medication to get the most benefit. The opposite is also true: for many sufferers medication does not effect complete remission until combined with an effective therapy, and one of the benefits of my method is that it works very well with antidepressants. Ultimately it doesn't matter how you get better; my interest is only that you do get better! Because then you can live a happy and successful life.
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